Birthdays:
1952 ~ Mitch Pileggi
(né Mitchell Craig
Pileggi), American actor.
1951 ~ Dean Kamen, American founder of the Segway, Inc.
1949 ~ Judith Arlene Resnik
(d. Jan. 28, 1986), American astronaut who was killed in the destruction of the
Space Shuttle Challenger. She was
36 years old.
1941 ~ Michael Moriarty, American actor.
1937 ~ Colin Luther Powell, American Army General. He served as the 65th Secretary of
State under President George W. Bush. He
served in this Office from January 2001 until January 2005. He also served as
the 16th National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan.
1933 ~ Frank Gorshin (né Frank John Gorshin, Jr., d. May 17, 2005),
American comedian best known for his role as The Riddler on Batman. He died at age 72 of lung cancer.
1933 ~ Barbara Murray Holland (d. Sept. 7, 2010), American writer
who celebrated her vices, such as drinking and smoking cigarettes. She died at age 77 of lung cancer.
1929 ~ Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist and recipient of the 1973
Nobel Prize in Physics.
1920 ~ Arthur Frederick
Hailey (d. Nov. 24, 2004), British-Canadian author. He wrote such books as Hotel and Airport. He died at age 84.
1916 ~ Gregory Peck (né Eldred Gregory Peck, d. June 12, 2003),
American actor, best known for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a
Mockingbird. He died at age 87 of
bronchopneumonia.
1908 ~ Bette Davis (née Ruth Elizabeth Davis, d. Oct. 6, 1989),
American actress. She was born in
Lowell, Massachusetts. She died at age
81 of breast cancer.
1908 ~ Ernestine
Gilbreth Carey (d. Nov. 4, 2006), American author. She is best known as being one of 12 children
of Lillian and Frank Gilbreth, whose life was chronicled in the 1948 memoir Cheaper by the Dozen. She died at age 98.
1900 ~ Spencer Bonaventure
Tracy (d. June 10, 1967), American actor. He died at age 67 of a heart attack.
1886 ~ Gustavo Jiménez (d. Mar. 15, 1933), Peruvian colonel and President of Peru
for 6 days from March 5 through March 11, 1931.
He died 3 weeks before his 47th birthday.
1883 ~ Walter Huston (né Walter Thomas Houghston, d. Apr. 7, 1950),
Canadian actor. He was the father of
director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston. He died 2 days after his 67th
birthday of an aortic aneurysm.
1869 ~ Sergey
Chaplygin (d. Oct. 8, 1942), Russian physicist and mathematician. He died at age 75.
1858 ~ Washington
Atlee Burpee (d. Nov. 26, 1915), Canadian horticulturist and founder of the
Burpee Seed Company. He died at age 57.
1856 ~ Booker T.
Washington (né Booker Taliaferro
Washington, d. Nov. 14, 1915), African-American educator and civil rights
activist. He died at age 59.
1827 ~ Sir Joseph
Lister, 1st Baron Lister (d. Feb. 10, 1912), English surgeon, who
developed the practice of antiseptic surgery.
He died at age 84.
1816 ~ Samuel Freeman
Miller (d. Oct. 13, 1890), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. He was appointed to the High
Court by President Abraham Lincoln. He
was in office from July 1862 until his death 28 years later. He was 74 years old at the time of his death.
1761 ~ Sybil Ludington (d. Feb. 26, 1839), heroine of the American
Revolutionary War. At age 16, she rode
her horse 40 miles throughout the night of April 22, 1777 to warn the
militiamen that British troops were planning to attack Danbury,
Connecticut. She died at age 77.
1649 ~ Elihu Yale (d. July
8, 1721), American–born
Welch businessman and slave trader. He
was a major benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which is
named in his honor. He died at age 72.
1622 ~ Vincenzo
Viviani (d. Sept. 22, 1703), Italian mathematician. He died at age 81.
1588 ~ Thomas Hobbes (d.
Dec. 4, 1679), English philosopher. He
is considered the Father of Modern Political Science. He died at age 91.
1568 ~ Pope Urban VIII (né Maffeo Barberini, d. July 29, 1644). He was Pope from August 1623 until his death
21 years later. The exact date of his
birth is unknown, but he was baptized on April 5, 1568. He died at age 76.
1472 ~ Bianca Maria Sforza (d. Dec. 31, 1510), Holy Roman Empress
and Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. She died at age 38.
1282 ~ Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. Oct. 11, 1347). He reigned as the Holy Roman Emperor from
1326 until his death in October 1347. He
died at age 65.
Events that Changed the World:
2015 ~ Easter Sunday.
2010 ~ An explosion at
the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia killed 29 coal miners.
1992 ~ Alberto
Fujimori (b. 1938), President of Peru, dissolved the Peruvian congress by
military force.
1955 ~ Winston Churchill (1874 ~ 1965) resigned as Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom.
1951 ~ Ethel (1915 ~
1953) and Julius (1918 ~ 1953) Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage
with the Soviet Union.
1936 ~ Massive
tornadoes killed over 230 people in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1922 ~ The American
Birth Control League, founded by Margaret Sanger (1879 ~ 1966), and the
predecessor of Planned Parenthood, was incorporated.
1879 ~ Chile declared
war on Bolivia and Peru, thus starting the War of the Pacific, which raged
through 1883.
1862 ~ The Battle of
Yorktown during the American Civil War began.
1843 ~ Queen Victoria (1819
~ 1901) of England proclaimed Hong Kong a British Colony.
1792 ~ President
George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) exercised his presidential authority to veto a
bill enacted by Congress. Congress had
enacted a law that would increase the number of U.S. Representatives from 67 to
120. Congress failed to override
Washington’s veto, but instead revised the bill to provide for 103 members,
based on the new census data.
1722 ~ Dutch explorer
Jacob Roggeveen (1659 ~ 1729) discovered Easter Island.
1710 ~ Copyright law was established in the United Kingdom.
1621 ~ The Mayflower set
sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1614 ~ Pocahontas
(1595 ~ 1617) married John Rolfe (1585 ~ 1622) in Virginia.
Good-byes:
2015 ~ Richard Allen Dysart
(b. Mar. 30, 1929), American actor best known for his role as Leland McKenzie
on LA Law. He died 6 days after
his 86th birthday.
2014 ~ Peter Matthiessen (b. May 22, 1927), American author who
roamed the wild. He died of leukemia at
age 86.
2011 ~ Baruch Samuel Blumberg (b. July 28, 1925), American physician
and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on
the study of kuru. He died at age 85.
2008 ~ Charlton Heston
(né John Charles
Carter, b. Oct. 4, 1923), American actor and advocate for the National Rifle
Association. He died at age 84.
2005 ~ Saul Bellow (né Solomon Bellows, b. June 10, 1915),
Canadian-born Jewish novelist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in
Literature. He died at age 89 in
Brookline, Massachusetts.
2005 ~ Dale Messick (née Dalia Messick, b. Apr. 11, 1906), American
author and illustrator. She was the
creator of the comic Brenda Starr. She
died 6 days before her 99th birthday.
2004 ~ Heiner
Zieschang (b. Nov. 12, 1936), German mathematician. His field of
mathematics was topology. He died at age
67.
2000 ~ Lee Petty (b. Mar. 14, 1914), American racecar driver. He was the father of race car driver Richard
Petty. He died at age 86 of an abdominal
aortic aneurysm.
1997 ~ Allen Ginsberg
(né Irwin Allen Ginsberg, b. June 3, 1926), American beat-poet. He died at age 70.
1994 ~ Kurt Cobain (b.
Feb. 20, 1967), American musician and front-man for Nirvana. He committed suicide at age 27.
1992 ~ Sam Walton (né
Samuel Moore Walton, b. Mar. 29, 1918), American retailer and founder of Wal-Mart
and Sam’s Club stores. He died of
multiple myeloma about a week after his 74th birthday.
1982 ~ Abraham “Abe”
Fortas (b. June 19, 1910), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. He was appointed to the High
Court by President Lyndon Johnson. He
served on the Court from October 1965 until May 1969. He died at age 71 of a ruptured aorta.
1976 ~ Howard Robard Hughes,
Jr. (b. Dec. 24, 1905), American hermit and aviator. He died of kidney at age 70.
1975 ~ Wilder Graves Penfield (b. Jan. 26, 1891), Canadian-American
neurosurgeon. He is best known for
treatment of epilepsy by surgery. He
died at age 85.
1975 ~ Chiang Kai-shek
(b. Oct. 31, 1887), 1st President of the Republic of China. He died at age 87.
1967 ~ Hermann Joseph
Muller (b. Dec. 21, 1890), American geneticist and recipient of the 1946 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died
at age 76.
1964 ~ Douglas
MacArthur (b. Jan. 26, 1880), American 5 Star General. He served during World War II. He died at age 84.
1955 ~ Tibor Szele (b. June 21, 1918), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 36.
1933 ~ Hjalmar Mellin (b. June 19, 1854), Finnish
mathematician. He died at age 78.
1923 ~ George Hebert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (b. June 26, 1866),
English banker and financier of Howard Carter’s archeological expeditions which
lead to the discovery of King Tut’s tomb.
He died at age 56 from an infected mosquito bite.
1900 ~ Joseph Louis François Bertrand (b. Mar. 11, 1822), French
mathematician. He died less that a month
before his 79th birthday.
1751 ~ King Frederick I of Sweden (b. Apr. 28, 1676). He died 23 days before his 75th
birthday.
1697 ~ Charles XI of
Sweden (b. Nov. 24, 1655). He died at
age 41 of stomach cancer.
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